Yeah. The outlook is not that great, and RC4 will definitely be better than CBC for those legacy systems in light of this discovery (http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/). At least the browsers are actively working on supporting the latest TLS and modes.
Yes, the discovery of Lucky13 and the following helplessness by many not-really-ops-but-doing-it-anyway people were the motivation to write that article in the first place. To get a minimal baseline security out there. Those who know better, will do better. There’s enough additional links to get hooked up. Can’t do more. :)
Oh certainly not a crisis – especially since it didn't bring new vectors to the table. I just saw many “what now!?”s in my timelines and figured I better give them a solid good-enough solution that just works before they do something stupid.
We’re in the web hosting business and whenever we try to be a bit more progressive, people start yelling at us that their IE 4-using customers in rural Mongolia can’t SSL-surf their shop. When it comes to mail, IIRC some business phones were behind too.
OTOH iOS 6 support TLS 1.2, so if you’re just building a REST API for your own apps, you can go wild.